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Note- This is a purely personal post. It encapsulates my feelings on motherhood. They are not necessarily the norm nor am I even trying to say that they are. I offer this clarification upfront with a view to avoding unnecessary debate!
This is one of my most favourite songs! Couldn't think of more approporiate an occasion for this song on this forum!
Mother of mine
You gave to me all of my life
To do as I please
I owe everything I have to you
Mother, sweet mother of mine
Mother of mine when
I was young
You showed me
The right way things
Should be done
Without your love,
Where would I be?
Mother, sweet mother of mine
Mother, you gave me
Happiness much more
Than words can say
I pray the Lord that
He may bless you
Every night and every day
Mother of mine
Now I am grown
And I can walk straight
All on my own
I'd like to give you
What you gave to me
Mother, sweet mother of mine
Life is a continuum. And a woman is at the centre of this continuum. For without her, there can be no continuum. God constructed her that way. Maybe, in the time to come, an artificial womb will be developed. Maybe women will be relieved of this task that some regard a burden. Maybe men and women will be truly similar in a biological sense too!
Till then, revel in this power within you to nurture life! Conceiving life, nurturing it and delivering it back to the world is no ordinary miracle. It is a blessing. Please treat it as such!
Thank you Mother for giving me this life to live. Thank you for housing me in your womb and nurturing me with your blood. Thank you Mother for this gift of womanhood! Thank you for this blessing of life that I pass on!
Call me regressive, Call me a traditionalist. Call me any names that you will. But I proudly declare that I never felt as blessed all my life as on the day when I knew my womb housed another life.
God bless you, Nidhi! May you enjoy the experience of motherhood in all its entirety. Congratulations and good luck, woman to woman!
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